Read your books.
Keep your streak.

Your library

• All your books on one shelf, with covers made automatically.
• Tabs for All, Reading, Not read, Finished, Favorites, Hidden and Collections.
• Search by name from the top bar.
• Sort by name, file name, format, size, date modified, date added or date read.
• View as full, brief, thumbnails or grid.
• Library overview with the total number of books and a count for each format.
• Select several books to favorite, add to a collection, hide or delete in one go.

Keep it organised

• Favorites, with their own tab.
• Collections: make your own groups, such as Trading, Business or Faith, and add any book to them.
• Mark any book as Not read, Reading or Finished.
• Find duplicates: the app spots the same book saved twice, keeps the best copy and hides the rest. Your progress and favorites are kept.
• Hide a book from your shelf without deleting it, and bring it back from the Hidden tab.
• Remove a book from this device, or delete it completely.
• About this book: format, size, where it is stored, and your progress.

Reading

• Opens where you stopped, every time.
• Option to open your last book automatically when the app starts.
• Dark, sepia and light themes, and adjustable text size.
• Night and Day for the whole app, from the bar at the bottom of the menu. Day is a soft grey, not bright white.
• Background sounds made from real recordings to read with: rain, rain and thunder, fireplace and forest, plus a soft wind sound, all in one compact Reading Atmosphere panel with a volume slider. They download once when you first pick one, then work offline, and they sit gently under the voice.
• Chapter list to jump around a book.
• Bookmarks you can add and return to.
• Option to keep the screen on while you read.

Word menu and dictionary

• Press and hold a word in any book to get Copy, Quote, Translate, Dictionary and More. Drag the two blue handles to select exactly the words you want.
• The dictionary shows the meaning inside the app, and saves each word to My Words. Words you looked up before work without internet.
• Save quotes in five colours with a note under each, and find them again in the Quotes list.
• Search any word or phrase inside the open book.
• Choose your reading style: four fonts, text thickness, line spacing, text align and margins for EPUB, Word, TXT and Mobi books.
• Tap the edge of the screen to turn pages, and see two pages side by side on a tablet or computer.
• Tap a quote in the book to change its colour, copy it or add a note.
• Pick the colour that follows the voice while it reads aloud.
• Rate a book, write a short review, and add it to Favorites, To Read, Have Read or a collection from the three dots menu.
• Customize the menu, the translator, the dictionary and the web search engine. The search engine is suggested from your browser.

Read aloud

• The app reads the book to you with the voices on your device, and highlights the sentence being read.
• Tap any word to start reading from its sentence. Taps on empty space are ignored.
• Go back or forward 10 or 20 seconds with one tap.
• Start from a chapter or from a bookmark.
• When you scroll or turn the page while listening, the voice keeps reading and takes you back to its place at the next sentence. Pause first to browse freely.
• If you tap a word or press play on a different page, the app asks whether to start there or continue where it stopped.
• Choose the voice and the speed. One Voices screen holds your device voices and the natural ones.
• Ten natural voices, five female and five male: hear a sample of each one, then download only the ones you like (about 60 MB each). They run on your own device and work offline. If your device is too slow for them, the app tells you and keeps using your device voice.
• Reading speed from 0.25x up to 2x.

Want even more voices? See the voices guide below.

Reading streak

• Set a daily reading goal in minutes. A day counts when you reach it.
• A flame counter at the top shows your current streak.
• A month calendar, Monday to Sunday, shows every day you read. Tap the arrows to look back at older months.
• Each month shows your time read, goal days and best run, with a bar chart of minutes per day.
• A Year view shows all 12 months at once. Tap a month to open it.
• A reading countdown runs while the voice reads, or when you press the timer button if you read with your eyes. Reach 0:00 and the day counts for your streak. Set the goal to 0 if you do not want one.
• An all time total, so older months never disappear.

Backup and sync

• Optional sync through your own Google Drive, so your streak, progress, favorites and collections follow you from phone to computer.
• Books you choose to sync are kept in a private space inside your own Drive.
• Read the books already sitting in Google Drive folders. Add as many folders as you like, on Drive or on your computer, and detach any of them with the three dots.
• Deleted books go to Trash for 30 days, so you can restore them.
• A page grid: tap ▦ to see a small picture of every page in a PDF and jump to any page, with the voice still reading where it was.
• Sort your shelf by name, size, format or date, and tap again to flip the order.
• A duplicate finder that spots the same book even when the names differ a little.
• A details page for each book: favorite, collection, have read, rename and trash.
• New books sit at the top with a NEW tag for 3 days.
• The voice keeps reading when you go back to your library, with a small player to pause it.
• On a Windows, Mac or Linux computer, connect a folder in Chrome or Edge and its books appear automatically.
• Save a backup file from Settings and restore it on any device.
• Works without Google. Everything stays on your device until you choose to sync.

Install and offline

• Installs like an app from your browser, with its own icon.
• Opens fast and works without internet once your books are on the device.
• No account to create.
• A What's new page lists the changes in every version.
• Send feedback from the menu.

Natural voices (phone and computer)

• Open the reader, tap Settings, then Read aloud, then Voice.
• Tap Hear sample on any voice. Download the ones you like. Each is about 60 MB, so use Wi-Fi.
• After the download the voice works offline and nothing you read leaves your device.
• The first voice also downloads about 16 MB of engine files, once.
• The Voice screen also lists your device's own voices. They use no storage.

Optional on Android: BookFusion Voice

BookFusion Voice is a free Android app that adds more voices to your whole phone. It is not part of Readion and we do not control it.

• Install BookFusion Voice from Google Play, open it and download a voice.
• Open Android Settings, search for Text to speech output, and choose BookFusion Voice.
• Close your browser fully and open Readion again. In the Voice screen, use Your phone's own voice.

Your browser shows one entry for each language, so choose the voice itself inside BookFusion Voice. Some browsers ignore the engine you picked. If you hear no change, use the natural voices instead.

On a Windows computer

• Use the ten natural voices above, on any browser.
• Microsoft Edge also lists the free Natural voices that come with Windows.

The Android app

• The reader as a real app on Google Play.
• Connect a whole folder on your phone.
• Daily reading reminders.
• Reading aloud with the screen off.
• Longer Google sign in, so you are not asked again and again.
• Open a book from another app, such as WhatsApp or Files.

The reader

• Trash that keeps deleted books for 30 days.
• More than one library folder.
• A nicer home page and more reading settings.
• A yearly view of your streak.
• A page for each book with quick actions.
• Tap a word to see its meaning.